All through 5000 years of culture for Chinese characters, the technique of printing is one of the "major inventions" in China . The significance of holding this designing competition of Chinese printing character types lies in the advocacy of China's age old Chinese culture and the alliance between old Chinese characters and modern designs, which will be incorporated into the design of modern printing character types to promote the innovation of printing types of Chinese characters; as well as enriching character types to promote the quality of various publications such as Chinese magzines and papers, so as to boost the development of computerised designing for chinese character types.
    In 2001, Founder Electronics held "1^st Printing Character Types Designing Competition", winning powerful reactions from character designing enthusiasts from home and abroad. The passion of participants and large quantity of works all are beyond the expectation of organization commitee for the competition. Many exellent works in the competition have made major breakthroughs out of traditional designing methods for chinese characters with embodiment of newly conceptualized significance of the time to enrich the culture of chinese characters. The panel of judges all agreed upon the fact that this designing competition by Fangzheng Electronics has provided opportunities for character designers and graphic designing talents to create and interact with each other, meanwhile, such activity can also bring the attention of society to Chinese printing character types to promote the development of Chinese printing character type designs.  
    The 2^nd "Founder  Award" Printing Character Types Designing Competition of 2003 is about to open, after the competition, part of the award-winning workpieces will have chances to be formulated into computer library of Chinese characters, so as to enrich the types of Chinese printing characters for our society.

    This competition is sponsored by Beijing Founder Electronics Co., Ltd, co-organized by Newspaper Association of China, Designer Association of Hongkong, Designer Association of Macau, Chinese Information Processing Society of China, Information Professional Commission of Chinese Character Types and Apple International Limited, and has invited 7 professional authorities for the panel of judges from the community of chinese character types and graphic designing, they are respectively Wu Xu, Lv Shengzhong, Hua Weicang, Chen Youjian, Yu Bingnan, Xu Xuecheng and Jin Liqiang; also with proactive coordination from supporting media such as Guangming Daily, Beijing Youth, Press Publication Paper of China, Art and Design, International Advertising, Labor Morning Post, Print China, Electronics Publication, Modern Advertising, Desktop Yellow Page, Digital Printing and China Printing Materials Market; with active response from Art Academy of Qinghua University, Designing Department of Central Art Academy, Designing Art Department of Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication and Art Academy of Shanghai University; Design Online, China Visual, Art Union, Color bird Designing Space and China Webpage Designer Association provide powerful support to this competition as a cooperating website.

   Zhoujin, general manager of network communication division with Fangzheng Electronics, said that all originally created Chinese character types adaptable to publication, printing and advertisement designing belong to the bidding scope for this competition. For works involved in the competition, in addition to meeting the specification of printing characters, the competition has also particularly emphasizes the unity of art and application, as well as printing and reading effect. The competition set an extra award of authentic characters with a bonus value of 10000 Yuan; one No.1 Award with bonus value of 10000 Yuan; two NO.2 Award with bonus value of 5000 Yuan; three NO.3 Award with 2000 Yuan; as well as Exellency Awards of 22. After this competition, Beijing Founder Electronics Co., Ltd will formulate part of the work pieces into the computer's word library to enrich types of chinese printing characters for the society.

       Beijing Founder Electronics Co.,Ltd is the leading provider of comprehensive solutions in the field of global trans-media information communications, which serves as one of the main businesses within the country. Fangzheng Electronics primarily develops Chinese electronic publication system, prividing digital products and solutions to worldwide users in fields of newspapers, business publication, TV broadcast and internet services. In adddition, the company has also closely cooperated with well-recognized international IT enterprises for the development of agency business for relevant products, so as to maximally meet the development requirement of customers' web business of the time, as well as boosting the development of China digital information production and communications. For detailed information, please refer to our company's website www.founder.com.cn